Arrange the following in chronological order:
A. Urbanisation in the Ganga valley; mahajanapadas; punch-marked coins
B. Beginning of the Gupta rule
C. Accession of Chandragupta Maurya
D. Rise of the Chalukyas in Karnataka and of the Pallavas in Tamil Nadu
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A, C, B, D
(A) Urbanisation in the Ganga valley; mahajanapadas; punch-marked coins — c. 600-500 BCE. This is the age of the sixteen mahajanapadas and of the first coins.
(C) Accession of Chandragupta Maurya — c. 321 BCE. He founded the Mauryan empire, a few years after Alexander’s invasion.
(B) Beginning of the Gupta rule — c. 320 CE. Note the change from BCE to CE: the Guptas came more than six hundred years after Chandragupta Maurya.
(D) Rise of the Chalukyas in Karnataka and of the Pallavas in Tamil Nadu — c. 500-600 CE, after the Gupta period.
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